Hidro-Mekanik Terkopel Pada Pekerjaan Galian Dalam Dengan Dinding Penahan Tipe Secant Pile Pada Tanah Tak Jenuh
Andika Wicaksana, Dr.Eng. Ir. Sito Ismanti, S.T., M.Eng.,IPM.
2025 | Tesis | S2 Teknik Sipil
This study investigates excessive deflection in secant pile retaining walls caused by extreme rainfall in tropical regions, particularly during the construction phase in Sumatra Island. The observed lateral deflection of 5 cm following heavy rainfall highlights the limitations of conventional geotechnical analyses that inadequately account for the unsaturated soil response to infiltration. Intense rainfall triggers increased pore water pressure and loss of matric suction, significantly reducing soil shear strength and causing instability in the secant pile. This research aims to analyze the failure mechanism through a coupled hydro-mechanical approach and numerical simulation. Initially, a stochastic rainfall model based on Neyman-Scott Rectangular Pulses (NSRP) was developed to generate representative hourly rainfall data. These data served as input for a transient 2D unsaturated flow simulation to map pore water pressure distribution around the excavation. The simulation results indicate that 12-hour infiltration changes pore water pressure from unsaturated to saturated near the soil surface, reducing matric suction and bringing effective stress close to failure conditions. The increased pore water pressure leads to a rise in active earth pressure behind the wall, substantially increasing bending moments on the piles. Moreover, the suction loss decreases the ultimate bearing capacity of the piles by up to 42.7%, weakening overall wall performance. Validation against field measurements, including wall deflection, confirms the numerical model’s accuracy in capturing this coupled behavior. Consequently, stability analysis of secant pile walls should incorporate hydro-mechanical coupling with transient pore water pressure input derived from infiltration simulations. Future research is recommended to focus on reinforcement design that anticipates transient loading from infiltration and considers soil cracking as preferential flow paths to enhance model realism
Kata Kunci : Saturasi, infiltrasi hujan, tekanan air pori, tekanan tanah lateral, analisis numerik